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Visual Edge 2002

Photography's Full Circle:
The Pinhole Perspective

Juried Exhibit, Page 5 of 5

Tim Mackrell
David Stichweh
Paul Mohr
Eric S. Theise
Derrick Burbul
Justin Quinnell
Patrick Carrico

The images are presented in the order being shown in the exhibition.
The numbers for each print are used as references for the exhibit.
Prices shown are set by the artists

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All images copyrighted by the artist.

Tim Mackrell
Auckland, New Zealand

46. Land Below $200

47. Water Between $200

"Land Below": This image was taken on a Nikon F3T using Kodak TMAX 3200

The pinhole was mounted onto the body cap and the TTL meter was used. Exposure was about 1/8th sec hand held.

I live and work in Auckland, New Zealand. Mt Taranaki is the most dominant feature of the area I grew up in, New Plymouth. When I was a boy I would look up at the sky and see vapour trails left by aeroplanes as they flew overhead and day-dream of where they were going to and what they could see flying over my home. One day on a commercial fight I was able to capture that view from one of the planes of the land below, a look back to my home and my dreams as a boy.

"Water Between": This image was taken with a converted coffee-tin using lith film (tincanpincam)The pinhole was mounted onto the body.Exposure was about 20 mins .

David Stichweh
Westerville, Ohio

48. "Hallowed Tree, Monastery Garden" $400

The exposure was made with a 4x5 pinhole camera in the cloistered garden of the Trappist monastery, Abbey of Gethsemani, in Kentucky. This liquid emulsion silver print was created by coating watercolor paper with light sensitive liquid emulsion, exposing the sensitized paper to the negative, and developing in normal photographic chemistry.

Paul Mohr
Fair Oaks, California

49. Nude $50

2000 Zero Image Camera
Gelatin Silver Print
Delta 3200 ASA film exposed at 1600 ASA
Exposure was for 4 seconds at f 235

Eric S. Theise
San Francisco, California

50. Iron Steps $425

The Iron Steps are very near to where I live in San Francisco. While I do not need to use them in my daily routine, I often make excuses to walk them. In her Stairway Walks in San Francisco, Adah Bakalinsky writes of them: "the kinetic sensational experience is more pronounced and uncanny than from other stairways." It's especially true as you pass the houses framing the top of the steps and the view opens up.

This photograph was taken with a pinhole camera of my own design, using an 11-second exposure onto 4x5 Plus-X film, and has been printed as a photogravure. Photogravure is an intaglio process -- etching ink on paper -- developed between 1850 and 1880. Its tonal and archival qualities are so superb that even after it had been supplanted in the early 20th century, photographers such as Curtis, Stieglitz, and Strand used it to edition some of their most important works. I believe that my pinhole imagery and photogravure make a perfect marriage.

Derrick Burbul
Duluth, Minnesota

51."Feeling Gitchee Gummee" $600

This piece combines my childhood home, Lake Superior, with the grandiose western landscape of the Grand Tetons. The subtle double exposure further emphasizes the changing viewpoints. It was taken with a pinhole camera that exposes five sheets of 4"x5" film simultaneously, each from a slightly different perspective.

Justin Quinnell
Cotham, Bristol, England

52. Taking My Temperature $100

53. The Royal Crescent, Bath, England $100

"The Royal Crescent": Taken using a 126 cartridge pinhole camera which I thought up over a veggieburger and a bottle of beer at a friends house. The exposure was about 15 seconds, (when it should have been more like 4 - good old exposure latitude!). It was one of my first pinhole photos and only the second film I had taken with this camera so I was still experimenting. Luckily It kinda clicked.

The taking of the picture was a mixture of luck and intuition. The best thing was opening up my photos from the processing lab and thinking 'What the hell is that?' An emotion I have with most of my photos! I also like the way that it visually corrupts the Georgian City of Bath. (I was brought up in the neighbouring city of Bristol where we refer to the place as 'Hell with window boxes!').

"Taking my Temperature": Taken using a 110 cartridge camera (exhibited). The camera sat on my desk for several days before I started trying to ram it into my mouth. It is lit with two flashguns (one fitted with a slave sensor) pointing at both the subject and into my mouth. There is a piece of sellotape on the rear of the camera to prevent saliva and dribble getting into the frame counter window.

From the series 'A day in the life of my mouth'. Which happened due to finding I could fit a camera into my mouth. This pik is near the end of the series between 'Drinking cocktails' and the rarely seen 'Throwing up'.

Patrick Carrico
Portland, Oregon

54. Paxil $800

Camera and image. This image was made by placing photo paper in the camera, and placing the camera in a fire. The fire providing the light source.

Camera used by Patrick Carrico

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